Kazumi Kobayashi

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the actual condition of outflow of youth by an educational problem in a village on the outskirts of Taegu Metropolitan City in Korea, and clarify the factors.<br> In Korea, a large population has flowed out from the rural area due to the economic growth since the 1960's. Even on the outskirts of Metropolitan City, we can often observe a large outflow of youth and the increasing proportion of the aged.<br> In this case, there can also be found a large outflow of youth and the increasing proportion of the aged. The direct reason of the outflow of youth is, in most cases, an educational problem. They make their children transfer to the elementary school in the city. This can be regarded as a family strategy for social upward mobility to get out from painful agriculture. The location of the outskirts of the city is expanding a possibility of realizing the family strategy for social upward mobility. Moreover, among the factors of these backgrounds, there are some basic factors that are caused by the characteristics of social structure of Korea, as well as economic factors.